JOSEPH G. PESCHEK Department of Political Science 1536 Hewitt Avenue Hamline University St. Paul, MN 55104, USA Phone: 651-523-2260 Fax: 651-523-3170 Email: jpeschek@hamline.edu EDUCATION Ph. D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1984. B. A. University of Washington, Seattle, 1974. ACADEMIC POSITIONS Professor, Hamline University, 1999- Associate Professor, Hamline University, 1993-1999. Assistant Professor, Hamline University, 1987-1993. Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY-Potsdam, 1986-1987. Adjunct Instructor, Lamar University, 1985-1986. PUBLICATIONS Books Co-Author with William F. Grover. A Structural Theory of the U.S. Presidency: Obama and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2014-2015. Co-Editor with William F. Grover, Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. First Edition, HarperCollins, 1993; Second Edition, HarperCollins, 1996; Third Edition, Longman, 1999; Fourth Edition, Longman, 2002; Fifth Edition, Pearson Longman, 2004; Sixth Edition, Pearson Longman, 2006; Seventh Edition, Pearson Longman, 2008; Eighth Edition, Pearson Longman, 2010; Ninth Edition, Pearson Longman, 2013. Editor, The Politics of Empire: War, Terror and Hegemony. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. 1
Author, Policy-Planning Organizations: Elite Agendas and America s Rightward Turn. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Articles in Voices of Dissent The Obama Presidency and the Economic Crisis. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Ninth Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2013: 242-251. The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Eighth Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2010: 261-273. George W. Bush s Imperial Presidency. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Seventh Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008: 243-252. The Bush Presidency and the Politics of Conservative Domination. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Sixth Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006: 242-254. The Bush Doctrine and U.S. Imperial Strategy. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Fifth Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004: 250-258. Perilous Restoration: The Election of 2000 and the Presidency of George W. Bush. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2002: 192-198. Which Bridge to the Future? The Clinton Presidency and the Debate Over Progressive Politics. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Third Edition. New York: Longman, 1999: 163-171. Bill Clinton and the Politics of Change. In Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. Edited by William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek. Second Edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1996: 155-160. Academic Articles and Book Chapters Recession and Politics. In American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia, Michael Shally- Jensen, Editor, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming. 2
C. Wright Mills and Industrial Democracy. In Blackwell s Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons, Editor-in-Chief, New York and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming. The Obama Presidency and the Great Recession: Political Economy, Ideology, and Public Policy. New Political Science. Volume 33, Number 4 (December 2011): 429-444. The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change in Foreign Policy. New Political Science. Volume 32, Number 2 (June 2010): 272-278. C. Wright Mills and American Democracy. New Political Science. Volume 30, Number 3 (September 2008): 393-403. National Security Tales and the End of the Cold War. In Tales of the State: Narrative in Contemporary U.S. Politics and Public Policy. Edited by Sanford F. Schram and Philip T. Neisser. Rowman and Littlefield, 1997: 212-222. Raymond Williams: Culture, Politics, and Democracy. New Political Science. Number 27 (Winter 1993): 17-29. Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. In American Political Scientists: A Dictionary. Edited by Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993: 241-243. Updated version in American Political Scientists: A Dictionary. Second Edition. Edited by Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002: 317-318. The Rehabilitation of Jimmy Carter & the Limits of Mainstream Analysis. Polity. Volume 23, Number 1 (Fall 1990): 139-152. With William F. Grover. Free the Fortune 500! The American Enterprise Institute and the Politics of the Capitalist Class in the 1970s. Critical Sociology. Volume 16, Number 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1989): 165-180. Book Reviews Review of The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy by Suzanne Mettler. New Political Science. Volume 35, Number 1 (March 2013): 153-155. Review of Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre by Paige Arthur. New Political Science. Volume 33, Number 1 (March 2011): 121-123. Review of When Media Goes to War: Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent by Anthony DiMaggio; Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression: The Black Panther Party by Christian Davenport. New Political Science. Volume 32, Number 3 (September 2010): 436-439. 3
Review of After Socialism: Reconstructing Critical Social Thought by Gabriel Kolko. New Political Science. Volume 29, Number 3 (September 2007): 399-401. Review of Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War by Carl Boggs. New Political Science. Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2005): 255-257. Review of The Collapse of Liberalism: Why America Needs a New Left by Charles Noble. New Political Science. Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2005): 115-117. Review of Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left by Michael Newman. New Political Science. Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2003): 614-616. Review of More Than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Beard by Clyde W. Barrow. New Political Science. Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2001): 574-577. Review of State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy Making in America by G. William Domhoff; From the Outside In: World War II and the American State by Benjamin H. Sparrow. Contemporary Sociology. Volume 26, Number 5 (September 1997): 592-594. Review of The End of the Republican Era by Theodore J. Lowi. Journal of Politics. Volume 58, Number 2 (May 1996): 561-563. Review of The Idea Brokers by James Allen Smith. Governance. Volume 5, Number 4 (October 1992): 508-509. Other Publications American Politics Today: An Interview with Frances Fox Piven. New Political Science. Volume 32, Number 3 (September 2010): 425-428. Democracy Dismissed? Reflections on 2000. Hamline. Volume 97, Number 2, Spring 2001. C. Wright Mills and American Democracy. Hamline Review. Volume 21 (1997): 27-36. Minneapolis Voters Step Up To Bat. In These Times. Volume 21, Number 24, November 2, 1997. A Living Wage: Campaigns Attach Strings to Public Contracts. Dollars and Sense. Number 210, March-April 1997. Democrats Refuse Fusion Overture. In These Times. Volume 20, Number 19, August 5-18, 1996. 4
Living Large. In These Times. Volume 20, Number 1, November 27-December 10, 1995. Cold War Deformations. Hamline Review. Volume 18 (1994): 37-47. Eros, Thanatos, and Social Reconstruction: Radical Implications of Conservative Theory. Hamline Review. Volume 16 (1992): 33-40. Don t Worry, Be Happy? A 60s Child Teaches 90s Students. Inquiry (Hamline University). Volume 80, Fall 1990. CONFERENCE AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Presidential Power and the Capitalist State: The Case of Barack Obama. Presented at the American Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois. August 29-September 1, 2013. Obama and the Limits of Reform: Stiglitz, Krugman, and the Social Democratic Critique of Neoliberalism. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. Hollywood, California, March 28-30, 2013. Obama and the Capitalist Crisis: The Politics of Economic Stagnation. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. San Antonio, Texas. April 21-23, 2011. Barack Obama s Political Economy: Interests, Ideology and Public Policy. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. San Francisco, California. April 1-3, 2010. The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change in Foreign Policy. Presented at the Left Forum 2009. New York, New York. April 17-19, 2009. New Political Science, the Journal: Results and Prospects. Presented at the American Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois. August 30-September 3, 2007. C. Wright Mills, the Power Elite, and Radical Democratic Politics. Presented at the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 31-September 3, 2006. Threat Inflation in the Cold War and the War on Terror. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, April 20-23, 2006. Progressive Political Science: The Legacy of Kenneth M. Dolbeare. Roundtable Participant. Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 16-18, 2006. Theorizing US Empire and Hegemony After 9/11. Presented to the Political Theory Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1, 2005. 5
The Bush Doctrine and U.S. Hegemony: Continuity and Change. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, April 15-18, 2004. Think Tanks and Conservative Politics in the Clinton Era. Presented at the American Sociological Association. Chicago, Illinois, August 16-19, 2002. Bill Clinton and the American Right Wing: Culture, Institutions, Politics. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, April 25-28, 2002. Roundtable on G. William Domhoff s Who Rules America? 4 th Edition. Chair and Organizer. American Political Science Association. San Francisco, California, August 30-September 2, 2001. Business Interests and Bill Clinton's Third Way. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, April 27-30, 2000. Bill Clinton and the Politics of the Third Way. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. San Jose, California, March 24-26, 2000. Business Interests, Public Policy, and the Clinton Presidency. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. Seattle, Washington, March 25-27, 1999. Which Bridge to the Future? The Clinton Presidency and the Debate Over Progressive Politics. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. Los Angeles, California, March 19-21, 1998. The Clinton Presidency and the Progressive Left. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. Tucson, Arizona, March 13-15, 1997. Class Inequality and Critical Pedagogy. Roundtable Participant. American Political Science Association. San Francisco, California, August 29-September 1, 1996. National Security Tales and the End of the Cold War. Presented at the American Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, August 31-September 3, 1995. C. Wright Mills and Radical Democratic Politics. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. Portland, Oregon, March 16-18, 1995. The Conservative Turn in U.S. Politics, 1973-1984: Competing Explanations of Crisis and Change. Presented at the American Political Science Association. New York, New York, September 1-4, 1994. 6
Between Marxism and Radical Democracy: Raymond Williams and the Politics of Collective Identities. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 10-12, 1994. Raymond Williams: Culture, Politics, and Democracy. Presented at the New England Political Science Association. Northampton, Massachusetts, April 2-3, 1993. The Presidency, Politics, and Political Economy: Carter and the Great Moving Right Show. With William F. Grover. Presented at the American Political Science Association. San Francisco, California, August 30-September 2, 1990. Managerialism, Militarism, and Political Economy: Towards a Revisionist Perspective on Carter's Foreign Policy. Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois, April 14-16, 1988. From World Order to Cold War: Perspectives on Carter's Foreign Policy. Presented at the New York State Political Science Association. New York, New York, April 3-4, 1987. The American Enterprise Institute and the Revival of Free Market Conservatism. Presented at the Western Political Science Association. Eugene, Oregon, March 20-22, 1986. MISCELLANEOUS Lecture, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Presidential Election of 2012, Primer Congreso Internacional de Diplomacia y Negocios, La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico, March 29, 2012. Lecture, Kennedy vs. Nixon The 1960 Television Debates: History and Effects on American Politics, University of Trier, Germany, November 19, 2010. Lecture, The Bush Presidency and the U.S. Presidential Election of 2008. University of Trier, Germany, June 13, 2008. Instructor, seminar on Power, Conflict, and Ideology in Contemporary American Politics. University of Trier, Germany, June 2000. Editor, New Political Science, 2002-2008. New Political Science is a quarterly, peerreviewed journal sponsored by the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association and published by Taylor and Francis/Routledge. Participant, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, June-July 2001. Member of seminar on Globalization: Meta-Narrative or Myth? with Professor Perry Anderson. Member, American Political Science Association. 7
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